Re: process Vs product

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 31 jul 2006, at 17.58, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> All the craft in the studio with cutting and pasting, aligning  
> vocal tracks to they start at the same time, end at the same time,  
> pitch correction, punching in and out....it is all amusing to me,  
> but doesn't impress me from an artistic standpoint. That seems like  
> more of a craft to me.

I doubt any audio/music refinement studio technique are used for  
impressing listeners ;-), but I must say I enjoy the resulting music  
as much as I enjoy the "hands-on jazz player" craft. I regard modern  
studio music production as an art form in its own right (to me it  
kind of equals "tweaking effect boxes"). I like to produce with those  
tools myself, but I wouldn't confuse it with the improvisational  
performance of music. In my book these two crafts are complementary  
and although they bleed over a bit both methods will let the musician  
(yes, I regard the studio as an instrument as well) do tricks that  
would not be possible with the other context.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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